A devilish dessert that takes home dining to the next level Me and chocolate are really good friends. I mean, what’s not to love right? It’s one of my favorite ingredients to work with for sweet as well as savory (have you tried to ad some chocolate into...

I don’t actually shoot a lot of dark photos or maybe I should say that I didn’t shoot many dark photos, as I do seem to do quite a fair bit of them lately. It could be the time of year. What better months to shoot dark and dramatic than the months of autumn...

And?? What do you think of the new design and the new logo? Nice? Not so nice? Horrible? You can tell me, I promise not to burst into tears straight away. I am very happy with it in any case. Regula from Miss Foodwise made the pretty logo (which ofcourse...

It’s been a bit of a madhouse lately… And it’s not even only work that is the ‘issue’, but it’s all the indirect stuff. Our international workshop here is getting closer and closer and it’s already next week, so there is all these last minute preparations...

Just before we were all going live with our Virtual baby shower we got the news that the baby is already born! It (I don’t know if its a boy or a girl yet) wasn’t due until a few days later but as happens with babies, planning is a little tricky! So congratulations...

What is it that makes baking so much fun? Is it the precise measurements that you need to follow? Is it the tempting smell when it is baking in the oven? Or is it the sweet taste of success once you open the oven door and take out the golden deliciousness…....

I always think that no matter what the missing ingredient is for a certain recipe, I can make it work with whatever I have on hand. And usually that is not such a bad way of thinking either as it generally gets the job done and has given me some surprisingly...

I sometimes feel that time is slipping away from me. I cannot believe we’re in December already and I cannot believe it is almost Christmas! I haven’t even given any thought yet to what we’re gonna make for Christmas, let alone started our traditional Christmas...

I’m sitting behind my computer and feel that I am staring at the screen. Staring without actually seeing anything. I’m soooo sleepy… Should I take a nap? Just pretend I don’t have to do anything else? But then, I know that naps and me, don’t go very well...

Ofcourse for our december photo and styling challenge it was pretty obvious to me what the theme should be… December is THE month for anything festive and sparkly! As coincidence would have it I am also hosting the December Monthly Mingle too and to avoid...

Note to self; need to buy a bigger steamer… Note two to self; need to use common sense when putting something in my small steamer… It all started out so well this afternoon. I was going to make steamed rice cakes, a lovely tuna salad (will follow later)...

Even though I am really good in coming up with alternative ways to using a recipe, tweaking this and tweaking that and adjusting it to my own taste, up till now I had never ever made an entire recipe from scratch. Well that is not counting the cooking....

Don’t you just sometimes feel you’re at the mercy of some stranger when it comes to hosting of your blog? Not too long ago I moved from my Dutch hosting guys to Hostgator and while I have to say everything went smoothly up until this morning, I now felt...

I’ll let you in on a little secret; up till not so very long ago I always thought that carrot cake wasn’t real. That it didn’t really exist other then in a stupid joke that I heard when I was a kid. The joke was about a bunny going to a bakery asking for...

I made this pretty moist and delicious bundt cake this afternoon. It came out of the oven around 4.30 pm, then had to cool and by the time I wanted to take a photo there was no light left whatsoever. That meant having to wait either until the next day or...

It’s been said before and I will say it again but sometimes the simplest things in life are also the best… Last night was our 6th session of our cooking club, with the fancy name of Kookclubbie (maybe we should come up with another name??) and it was great...

I have visions of salads… lovely green salads with maybe just a tiny bit of nuts and a little bit of salty blue cheese and a gorgeous dressing. Salads that make me feel light and most of all healthy. Salads that give me the feeling that I am on the right...

Isn’t it funny how certain foods can transport you right back into your childhood? When I was a little kid I already loved to bake, but we never really got much further then the standard (but tasty!) apple pie and this Arretje Nof.. Now as far as I have...

Are you all excitedly waiting for the new challenge to see if it is any better then the last one?? Well I can assure you it IS better then the last one, although it doesn’t take a lot to make it better. I thought about which recipe to pick a lot before...

Do you have certain ingredients that you simply cannot resist? The type of ingredient you see in the markets or supermarket and just HAVE to have? I’m pretty terrible when it comes to things like that, so I tend to end up in a lot of cases with ingredients...